Maddy Myers

The PS4 Pro disrupted game console release timelines.

It was the first console in the 21st century that provided a significant graphical update

in a mid-cycle refresh, 1080p to 4K HDR.

No other mid-cycle refresh did this beforehand, which is why the PS5's launch felt lukewarm, quote-unquote, comparatively.

A wacky way to sum this up, the PS4 Pro is the actual PS5, the PS5 is essentially a mid-cycle refresh, and the PS5 Pro is the PS6 in disguise.

Thoughts?

P.S.

been listening since this was screen days and you threw your hands down the best video game podcast out there.

Would love to go to a live episode if you're ever in Minneapolis.

I know.

I love these places.

I feel like we should do like a demographic survey or something and maybe that would be fun.

Yeah.

But hey, what do we think?

What do we think of Joe's interpretation?

Yeah, that was literally called the new 3DS.

But it had exclusives and it was a console upgrade.

Yeah, I remember that making a big difference for me, although my problem in evaluating that is that I didn't have a PS4 Pro.

So I remember back when I got the PS5, I was playing Assassin's Creed, must have been Odyssey on the PS4, and then put it on the PS5 and was like, oh, my God, finally, the game is loading.

I'm not just sitting here waiting to play the game.